Cube vs Planful
One of fourteen models named Cube first on the direct prompt; three named Planful. Cube was named by thirteen of the fourteen models and Planful by fourteen and Cube carries 53 labels and Planful 54, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in nine categories this edition.
Named in ten categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the FP&A platforms page.
By framing
CubeFirst choices, of fourteen modelsPlanful
Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Cube and Planful were named in the same answer 134 times, of the 352 answers naming Cube and the 402 naming Planful. In those answers Planful took the first choice nine times and Cube seventeen.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | | ||||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | | | | ||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | | | | | |
| Perplexity Sonar | | | | | | |
| Grok 4.20 | | | | | | |
| Mistral Small | | | | | ||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | | | | |||
| Llama 4 Maverick | | | | |||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | | | | | | |
| Kimi K2 | | | | |||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | | | | |||
| MiniMax M2.5 | | | | |||
| GPT-6 Luna | | | | | ||
| Muse Glimmer 30B | | | | | |
Cube Planful first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Cube on the left and Planful on the right.The direct prompt
Cube first, Planful an alternative
1 of 14 modelsPlanful was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Planful first, Cube an alternative
3 of 14 modelsCube was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
4 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
By buyer segment
Cube4%#7 of 14Planful4%#6 of 14What the models said about Cube
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.
“Excel-adjacent tools like Datarails, Cube, and Vena may not be suitable for long-term scalability in large enterprises” Llama 4 Maverick · negative prompt · soft negative
“median pricing for those lands in the $30,000+ range—typically too expensive for "limited budget" teams” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · soft negative
“The best FP&A software for a company with a limited budget is Cube, which offers a free plan and paid plans starting at $40-$80/user/mo.” Llama 4 Maverick · budget prompt · first choice
What the models said about Planful
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.
“60% of FP&A professionals expressed criticism about Planful. Users report that "the planning feature was almost impossible to use".” Claude Haiku 4.5 · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid the mid-market "contact us" vendors (Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, Pigment, Planful)” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · hard negative
“Planful is best for horizontal mid-market and enterprise finance teams that value packaged AI features and integrated FP&A plus close, and is a G2 Leader” Claude Haiku 4.5 · direct prompt · first choice
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.